Earlier today I was trying to figure out what I might blog about tonight, and then out of nowhere I thought, “THE HAM! I NEED TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE HAM!”
Because remember how I’ve given away fifteen pounds of Petit Jean bacon a couple of times? Well, not too long ago Misty from Petit Jean Meats emailed me and said something along the lines of, “Hey – would you be interested in giving away a ham on your blog?”
And I said, “Oh, you know me – I don’t really care for meat.”
I KID.
What I really said was that I would love to give away a ham, and today, WHAT DO YOU KNOW, that is exactly what I’m doing.
It’s not just any ham, mind you. It’s fancy ham.
It’s half a smoked spiral ham – about 7-9 pounds (worth 65 American dollars) – and here’s the description from the Petit Jean website.
Every Ozark Hickory Smoked Spiral Sliced ham is individually hand -trimmed and seasoned with a blend of cloves, cinnamon, and other special ingredients before going into our old-fashioned smokehouse. Inside our smokehouse, each ham soaks up the smoke from smoldering hickory chips for at least 16 hours. The result is a ham that is fully cooked, moist and tender through and through, with a incredible smoky flavor that goes all the way to the bone.
Doesn’t that sound delicious? Petit Jean is a great company – and since I know for a fact that they do wondrous things with bacon, I have mighty high expectations for the ham.
I’m gonna leave this giveaway open until Friday morning about 10 central – and then I’ll close it and draw for a winner. Once I get the winner’s address, I’ll coordinate with Misty to see when and how long it will take to ship (that way you’ll know if it’s possible to have it at your house for Thanksgiving – or if it makes more sense to have it shipped closer to Christmas).
I’ll announce the winner here and on my blog Facebook page by noon on Friday.
So. To enter the giveaway, just answer one simple question: What dish do you look forward to the most on Thanksgiving day? Sweet potato casserole? Fried turkey (I see you, Louisiana)? Pecan pie?
Happy Ham, y’all!
This giveaway is now closed.
Sweet potatoes!
Is there anything more glorious than a pumpkin roll?
Desserts! Desserts! Desserts!
Bizarrely enough, my mother in law always makes jello eggs on Thanksgiving and they’re one of my favorites!!
nasty ole cream-o-mushroom and french’s dried onion green bean casserole!!!
oyster rice dressing is my most fave!
Goodness….just one favorite?! I love it all! Especially the sides, and desserts, and turkey and……..well, just all of it!
Mashed potatoes and green bean casserole….it’s a tie!!
My momma’s chicken and dressing and cranberry sauce!!
It has to be sweet potato casserole.
Fried turkey and the dressing ( not stuffing) head my list of favs!
Mashed potatoes and broccoli rice casserole.. soo goood!!
Oh golly, it sounds so boring but the first bite I have is usually the potatoes and gravy…not just any gravy, mind you…and it occurs to me that I may have mentioned my gravy on your comment section last year so I won’t go into it. (it takes me two days to make from start to finish…it’s heaven on a plate). Hope I win!!!
Could you please share a little more about your two-day gravy? I love a good gravy (it doesn’t love me much but a good gravy is worth the upset once in awhile) but have never heard of this – I do make my own gravy but am really intrigued to know more! Thanks!
My fav is my sweet potato casserole with an awesome sweet crunchy topping made from chopped pecans, flour, and sugar ~ absolutely to die from recipe I got from my cousin in Jackson, MS! And by the way, it goes equally well with turkey and/or HAM!!! Happy Thanksgiving:)
Fun giveaway!! Thanks, BooMama!
Not really “thanksgiving” food, but I can’t quit the homemade Chex Mix. It’s been a staple in our house since around Forever. I look forward to it every year!
I love a good hashbrown casserole the best. However, nothing tastes so good as sneaking bites of everything before dinner. Those bites are the best!
Well, there isn’t anything that I don’t like at Thanksgiving – but I guess my favorite is the stuffing!
Dressing…
I most look forward to the after-eating nap!!! :) Thanks for the fun giveaway.
I’m with Sara up there: stuffing, gravy and dark meat. mmmmmm
I love the excuse to eat a full course meal and use fancy dishes and its the only time of year I get dressing!
I look forward to my cornbread dressing. That ham looks delicious!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
I love the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top. I think the leftovers taste better than the meal itself – maybe because I’m tired of cooking by the time we eat on Thanksgiving. My Mama has been in the hospital so my biggest pleasure this year will be to see her well enough to enjoy the meal.
deviled eggs
I love the Sweet Potato Casserole. It’s hardly a vegetable by the time we finish “doctoring” it up with sugar and butter. Yummo!
Happy Thanksgiving, Sophie. Loved your book!
The cornbread dressing! My favorite!
Believe it or not, I really look forward to my sister’s gravy. It’s the best! It perplexes me how it turns out so dark brown, more like gravy from a roast. It’s so flavorful and delicious!
Sweet potato casserole and stuffing (Can’t pick one!)
My grandmother’s mashed potatoes where you can see thee butter swirled in the top.
I do love stuffing on rolls with a dribble of gravy =)
turkey and stuffing
Pecan pie!
Dressing! I found a recipe with chestnuts last year that changed my world.
Stuffing, followed closely by pumpkin pie!
Gotta have cornbread dressing!
I think it’s a toss up between mashed potatoes and gravy and pumpkin pie. Honestly, it’s just too hard to choose!
The cornucopia of carbs – bread, corn, potatoes, dressing, cake balls and PIE for the finale.
Cornbread dressing smothered in gravy
Dressing is #1 but everything else too!
Oh, that would be the pies! Pecan and Pumpkin.
There is nothing like cornbread dressing. Yummy.
Pecan pie!
Corn Casserole or pudding……can’t wait!!! Oh happy day!
Pecan Pie!! My Mama makes the best.
My dads rolls are the best at Thanksgiving. I can’t get enough of them!
The turkeydressingcranberrysauce. Lol
I love…love…love cornbread dressing and some gravy!
That ham looks delicious! I’m most looking forward to the pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. Thanks for the chance to win a ham. It would be wonderful to have on Christmas day.
My favorite Thanksgiving food is dressing! With gravy.
All of my moms home cookin’… but I do love a ham and prefer it to the turkey. And I enjoy dressing with dill pickle chips (hows that for weird)
Cranberry Apple Salad – I only make it at Thanksgiving and look forward to it year after year!
Homemade rolls with butter, real butter, of course, melted into the warm rolls. These would be even better with a slice of ham, too.
Pecan pie!
Definitely the sweet potatoes!
I’m most excited to go and see my family! And eat my mom’s homemade stuffing. I hated it as a child, and much to her horror, would insist she make me a separate batch of Stove Top Stuffing (I can still see her shuddering at the thought). As an adult, I finally have realized the yummy wonder that is homemade stuffing and look forward to it every year!
Counting the days for pecan pie!
I LOVE turkey and stuffing! So excited for our meal next week – I’m pregnant, so big meals make me happy :)
I love turkey and yeast rolls!
Cornbread Sausage Dressing!!
The dressing is my favorite!!! And I hate turkey, but LOVE Ham!!!
My mama’s sweet potato casserole – the kind with pecans and coconut!! Mmmmmmm!!
My mother’s dressing. I know she won’t be here forever, so I just savor it more each year.
Pecan Pie! Everyone else in my family loves pumpkin pie, but pecan pie is where my heart is. :)
Broccoli casserole
Cornbread Dressing and Pies…oh the pies!
Pie!! any kind will do but this year it will be chocolate chip.
The dressing!!!:-)
Stuffing, stuffing, stuffing!!
I love it all – Thanksgiving is my favorite meal of the year! But if I had to pick one favorite, it would probably be baked corn. Yum!
Cranberry Jello salad–cranberries cooked with crushed pineapple and black cherry Jello, let set up and then folded into Cool Whip. Delish!
Dressing! Love it!
STUFFING!
Love, love, love the sweet potato casserole!!! Yum!
Sweet potato casserole!
The dressing!
The stuffing. But only the stuffing from in the bird. Don’t pass me the casserole dish with the extra that was baked sans bird. Nay nay.
Or the green bean casserole. But I’m biased… I make it. And I grate a silly amount of fontina cheese into the mix before it’s baked. It adds the perfect flavor. Not to toot my own horn or anything… but you know… toot.
Believe it or not, it isn’t all about the food for me…..although I LOVE the food, too! It’s just about “that feeling” you get – when you are sitting around the table with loved ones and friends over a great meal that you put that little bit of extra love into making…….and I am a “leftover” person – nothing I like better than that next day’s turkey sandwich (literally the one time a year I buy a loaf of that white squishy bread)……white bread/mayo/turkey/S&P/lots of dressing/topped with cranberry sauce and another mayo/white bread……mmmmm…..I can taste it now and it will be my staple next Friday and Saturday! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
dressing with cranberry sauce!
My favorite Thanksgiving is my Grannie’s dressing. This precious saint finely grates the onions and celery before boiling them down to nothing but delicious flavor so that her precious spoiled loved ones don’t have to endure chunks in our dressing.
Oh growing up in Arkansas, that ham is worth all $65. Now, I want to try the bacon! I love the dressing for Thanksgiving and especially my mom’s!
Desserts – pecan pie and crunchy apple pie!
Homemade bread!
Cornbread dressing……….my Grandmother’s recipe. Nothing comes close :)
Would LOVE to win the HAM!
Thanks, BooMama!
Dressing and homemade cranberry sauce!
sweet potato casserole!!!
My mom’s sausage dressing topped with her giblet gravy.
Martha Stewart’s Gruyere Potatoes!!!
Pioneer woman’s pecan pie!
Family, green bean casserole, homemade buns, foot-ma-ball!
Pineapple casserole is my absolute fav!
Turkey sandwich on white bread, heavy mayonnaise!
The green bean casserole with french fried onion rings is my fav, which we won’t be having this year because we are doing “gluten free” but that’s perfectly OK because it means we will be with our family and extended family this year and that’s what Thanksgiving is all about. So excited! It’s not about the food- if you have to travel to be with family you appreciate how much spending time with them means!
Maybe good old turkey and gravy…or maybe my mom’s carrot souffle, which you could argue is really more of a dessert than a side dish (and is delicious).
It’s all about the pie! Pumpkin or Pecan…or both!!
I love all of the side dishes- stuffing, corn casserole, green bean casserole, ambrosia, and on and on and on. And I love them even better the next day!
sweet potato casserole!
Fresh Pumpkin Pie and my Mom’s famous dressing!
HAM!! Give me the ham…love me some ham on Thanksgiving! Then ham sandwiches with leftover broccoli/cheese/rice casserole!! Delish!! Nothing like a ham sandwich with miracle whip the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas! Thank goodness we have ham for both occasions.
I have to say I like the cornbread dressing almost the best on Thanksgiving. That and all the pumpkin desserts!
For me it’s the pumpkin pie. I wait all year for it!
I love the Dressing my mom makes.